"It is as if 100 elephants were pushing down on the point of a pencil, if one could find a pencil capable of holding all those elephants." (paragraph 15)
What is the effect of this image on the meaning of the passage?

What contradictory idea is kafka bringing up about his relationship with his relationship with his father in this passage from letter to his father

Lord of the flies chapter 1 reading log

Read the excerpt from eighty years and more: reminiscences, 1815-1897. all that day and far into the night i pondered the problem of boyhood. i thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. so i decided to study greek and learn to manage a horse. which question would best the reader understand stanton's viewpoint in this excerpt?